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Particular attention paid to Orphans' Court business and settlement ot decedents estates. 25-42. \1 EIICUR k MORROW,Attorneys at Law, JlJ_ Towanda, Penn'a, The undersigned having associated tbemselvas togeth er in the practice ot Law, offer their professional ser vices to the public. ULYSSES MERCUR, P. D. MORROW. March f. 1865. • PATRICK k FECK, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Offices :—ln Union Block, Towanda, Pa., formerly occupied by Hon. Wm. Klwell, and in Patrick's block, Athens. Pa. They may be consulted at either place, n. w. PATRICK. apllS w. A. PECK. Hll. McKEAN , ATTORNEY & COI'N •SE Lf.OR AT LA If. Towanda, Pa. Par ticular attention paid to business in the Orphans' Court. July 20. iG;. HENRY FEET, Attorney at Laic, Towan ta. Pa. jon27. 66. W H. CARNOCHAN, ATTORNEY v , • AT LA IV, Troy, l'a. Special attention given to col'ectingclaims against the Government for Bounty, Back Pay and Pensions. Office with E. B. Parsons, Esq. June 12, lttia. • ijIDWARt) OVERTON Jr., Attorney at 'j Law, Towanda, l'a. Office in Montanyes Block, over Frost's Store. July LRh, 1866 rOHN V CALIFF, ATTORNEY AT tf LAH r , Towanda. Pa. Also, Government Agent or the collection ol Pensions. Back Pay and Bounty.. e~ N'o charge uak-ss successful. Office over the Post Office and News Room. Dec. 1, 1864. HENRY a RECORD, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, having permanantly located in Mill view, Sullivan Co., Pa..would respectfully offer his pro fessional services to the citizens of the place a vicinity. Jan. JO, 'rinerly occupied by Dr. G W. Stone, for the practice of his p ofe.--ioa. Particular attention given to the treat me at of wouwu and children, as also to the practice of minor surgery. Oct. 2 ,'66. DR. PRATT has removed, to State street (first above B. b. Uusse'l A Go's Bank). Persons (nun a diltance desirous ~! con.-ulting him, will be most likely to find him on bslcrday ot each week. Especial stu alion will he given to surgical cases, and the extrac tion ol teeth, 'las or Ether administered when desired, ly 18, . 10. 8. PR ATT, M. D. DOCTOR GHAS. i fa INE. —office in Goal's Ltrug Store. Towanda, Pa, Calls proxpt ly attended to at all hours. Nov 28, "66. LH) WA RD M EEK S—AUCTIONEER.— i All K tters addres-ed to him at Sugar Run, Brxd toiuCo.. l'a., will receive prompt attention. May7'66tf. Ip HAN CIS E. I'OST, Painter, Towanda, l'a. with ID years experience, is confident he can give the best sutisHn'tton in Painting, Graining, Ktain inr. Glszimr. Papering, Ac. ear Particular attention paid t<> Jobbing in the country. April 9, '66. | J. NE W ELL, COUNTY SURVEYOR, Orwtll, Bradford O . P.... will promptly attend to all business in his lit e. Parlicaiar attention given to run ning and establishing old or disputed lines. Also to surveying of all unpa'.tented lands av aoan as warrant arr- obtained. May 17, 1860. Dentistrp. rpWENTY-FLVE YEARS EXPERIENCE X IN DENTISTRY J. S. SMITH, M. D.. would re spectfully inlorni the inhabitants of Bradford Connty tint he is pertnanantJy located in Waverly, N.Y., where be has been in the.practice ol his profession for the past font year-. He would say that from his long and suc cessful practice of 25 years duration, he is familiar with all the different styles of work done in any and all Den tal establishments In city or country, and is better pre pared than any other Dental operator in the vicinity to do work the best adapted to the many and different cases i'uat preseut themselves oftentimes to the Dentist, as he unikrstaad-i the art ot making his own artificial teeth. and has facilities for doing the same. To those requiring under sets of teeth he would call attention to his new kind of work which consists ot porcelain for both plate and teeth, aud totaling a continuous gum. It is more durable, more natural in appearance, and much better adapted to the gum than any other kind of work. Those in need of the same are invited to call and exam ine specimens. Teeth filled to last for years and olten t'ffies for file. Chloroform, ether, and ".\itrou* oxide" administered with periect safety, as over lour hundred patients within the last four years can testify. I will be in Towanda from tire 15th to 30th of every month, at the office ri specuul ly invited to nty wr.-ct. wifi jc tt,n,d bi be Fresh, bought at I*W ■< tw ,it corrtspouditigly low ratea July 17. Iww. W iiAVIN G AND TOl LET SOAPsTFOR LJ sale cheap at the ITEWB tDCTti- E. O. GOODRICH, I'ublinher. VOLUME XXVII. PERFECT REST. Is the quiet of the churchyard, The weeping willows wave Their Gender, drooping branches In the chilly autumn air ; And the wither'd church-yard gr&saeß, Above each lonely grave, Utter sad and mournful whispers O'er the dead who slumber there. In the golden months of summer Comes the honey-laden bee. To hum amid the clover His drowsy, murmurous song ; While the yellow-hearted daisies Grow thick and fair to see ; And the sky looks down upon them With a smile the whole day long. Then, at times, I love to wander Among the peaceful dead, Where the gqlden-netted sunbeams Sleep gently on the grass ; And to think on friends departed, And the years lorever fled ; While across the marble's whiteness Falls my shadow as I pass. What calm, unbroken slumber, What sweet and perfect rest, In the quiet of the church-yard For evermore to lie ; With the tired hands gently folded Across the pulseless breast, In summer and in winter, While the fleeting years go by! Not any thought of sorrow, Nor shadow born of care ; No eager, restless longings, Of this busy life a part ; No dream of proud ambition Can ever enter there ; Or the turbulent emotions That crowd the beating heart. Sometimes when very weary, When the days seem dark and drear, And my heart beats low within me, By a sense of grief opprest, Then the graves within the cburch-yaid More beautiful appear, And a longing fills my bosom For the sweet and perfect rest. ShUrttft OAUGHT IN THE ACT. I never can read an account in the news paper of a gentleman of the Irish persua sion arrested at the suit of his wife, and safely lodged ie the station-house, without a feeling of iutense amusement that re quires an explanation. Once, during the summer solstice, when everybody that was anybody (except my- ■ self,) had gone out of town, I was left to my own devices during the day and Ben's society in the evening for what amusement I could find in hot pavements, shaded houses, and libations of ice-water, for the space of two never-to-be-forgotten weeks. I had immolated myself on the shrine of sisterly affection, for Ben's down-town af fairs oould not possibly be wound up be fore the specified two weeks had expired ; and a most comfortable feeling of self righteousness accompanied the sacrifice. To be sure, a trip to Lake George was promised me as the reward of merit ; and with this in prospect, my captivity became quite endurable. Besides, Ben aud I were always excellent friends- -the two cronies, in fact, of the family ; and as the others had dispersed right and left on various mmmer pilgrimages, it behooved me to see that my favorite brother was not left to the tender mercies of Bridget. All the neighbors had deserted us ; and I had watched trunk after trunk, and car riage after carriage, starting for various destinations. The news-papers afforded me, in the letters from water.ng-places, the delectable information that " Miss B was charming in a dress of blue crepe with pink trimmings " Mrs. G , handsome and dixtihgue, in crimson moire antique " Miss L , like a sunset cloud in violet silk and so on through the alphabet gen erally. As I knew some of these people very well, I wondered if a transformation had taken place from change of residence ; and hoped that, whatever it was, I might not fail to catch it when I, too, should pack up my tent like the Arabs, and glide in the darkness away. I fully expected to go in the morning when I did go ; but I think there is some thing like this in one of Mr. Longfellow's poems. Our next-door neighbor, Mrs. Beverley, had gone with the two children, and faith ful black Rose, at the very beginning of the Buoimer Sittings ; aud as Mrs. Beverley was my especial admiration, and the chil dren my favorite amusement, I wondered how I conld possibly get through the weary days without them. Little "Dory," (short for Theodore), whose father's eyes had closed in this world without seeing the face of his little son, was an animated sculp ture of the purest marble, lighted up by dark orbs that seemed to make whiter the ivory skin ; and his sister, two years older, was the most bewitching little romp that ever spoiled white dresses, or set at naught all the rules of propriety. As for the gentle, sorrow-stricken moth er, whom scarcely any one ever got a glimpse of, I had fairly stormed her into a sort of liking for me—scaled her castle on various pretexts, and carried off the chil dren so frequently, that the fact of my ex istence became too apparent to be ignored. All the family laughed at my passion for Mrs. Beverley, and all that pertained to her j every one acknowledged that she was lovely aud attractive, but completely wrap ped up in her children and the memory of a happy past. My feeling for her, however, amounted to perfect enthusiasm ; and we had become very good friends some time before her departure. She had not goue among the " charming" Miss L.'s, and B.'s, aud G.'s, with their rain bow-hued dresses ; but off among the green hills of New Hampshire, where aunt and cousins waited to welcome her and her children to pure air and giees. pastures. She would be gone ali summer, ami had laughingly requested me to keep an eye on 'At- I i 'tiac while 1 remained mar it. It is ne diess for me to say that I kept two ry s perseveringly fixed upon the domicile wuexi trm opportunity offered ; and held endlees TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., DECEMBER 27,1866. discussions with Ben as to whether all the doors and windows were properly fastened. For a constitutional dread of burglars was one of my idiosyncrasies ; and I had fre quently been remonstrated with for looking upon them as supernatural being*—inas much as, from the nature of my searches before retiring, I evidently cxp etcd ?h r n to lodge in burcau-drawerß.aud store tnern selves away in small boxes. Mrs. Beverley had frequently spoken to me of a brother whom, as the country peo ple sav, she seemed to " set great store by and who was now studying a profes sion in a distant city. He was to join her in New Hampshire, and return with her on a visit ; and she had expressed a strong de sire that we should see each other. I was quite persuaded that she hoped a great deal trom this seeing ; and I must confess that the tact of bis being Mrs. Beverley's broth er threw a halo of strange interest around Mr. Esselton. I often found myself thinking of him and wondering what he was like—or rather what he would strike ne as being like ; for, of coarse, his sister had drawn Iter own im pressions of him for my benefit, and if these impressions were correct, he must be an uncommonly nice fellow. His photo graph was decidedly handsome ; and with out ever having seen him, I felt pretty well acquainted with him in advance, and wait ed rather impatiently for October to bring Mrs. Beverley back to town. 1 had even decided how to "do " my hair, and what dress to appear in, on my first presentation; but I could not help wishing tbat something unforeseen and romantic would occur to bring about that first meeting in away en tirely different from the usual hackneyed course. I had my wish, as time will show. About half of the two weeks had worn away, when a very warm day aud night, that called forth experience and compari sons from all the " oldest inhabitants," camf down upon us with fury ; and after gasping through the day iu some sort of fashion, I lelt my couch at midnight in ut ter disgust at my folly in supposiug that I could sleep with the thermometer High up among the nineties, and betook myself to the window. Certain sounds that proceeded from the next room convinced me beyond a doubt that BeD, though present in body was ab sent iu mind ; and with the pleasant con sciousness of being the only persou in the house at all alive to the afiairs of this mun dane sphere, I turned my attention to tha glorious moonlight, that, as Hood enthusi astically says : " Makes earth's commonest scenes appear All poetic, romantic, and tender." But while eugaged in vague speculations about the moon aud stars, a sudden noise brought my thoughts earthward again ; and glancing toward Mrs. Beverley's back premises, I actually saw a man on the up per verandah ! opening one of the oedroom windows. My heart almost stood still with terror ; but by a fearful effort, 1 restrained myself from screaming—for Ben was very hard to awaken, aud both our throats might be cut before this was accomplished. Not venturing a second look, I retreated trembling from the window, and proceeded to the task of arousing Ben as quietly as possible. Having obligingly left his door unlocked for my especial comfort, there was no time lest in effecting an entrance ; and had my brother been capable of appreciating the vision, he would have seeu a wild creature in white drapery calling his name in a nightmare whisper of terror—but, of course without producing the slightest effect. Ben always slept with revolvers uuder his pillow, which made me chary of touch ing him—for fire-arms affected me as a drawn sword did James the First; but something must be done speedily, as I fan cied that Impudent man perhaps-loading himself at that very minute with movea bles. " Get up !" I shouted, waxing stronger, " Ben ! Ben ! Get up, this moment !" " 'Tisu't time yet," grunted my provoking brother, now half awake, as he turned over like the sluggard. I never had any patience with people who almost require a charge of artillery to bring them back to their sober senses ; and shaking him now with right good will, 1 screamed, " Thieves ! Robbers ! ! Fire 1 ! ! Get up 1" A head that would have served for Me dusa started from the pillow ; and out came those horrible revolvers, pointing di rectly at me. A frantic yell, that I tried in vain to smother, issued from my lips ; and Ben; now quite awake, shouted out at me : " Maria ! What in the name of heaven is the matter ? Do Btop that confounded noise !" He had quite forgotten to call me " Min uie," as I always insisted on being called ; being terribly in earnest, he had gone back to the humdrum appellation that roused my intense disgust. I was too much taken up with the revolvers, just now. to remind him of his omission, and between my terror of of the weapons, and his desire to use them immediately upon somebody, we seemed scarcely likely to come to an understand ing. Finally, however, Ben was made to un derstand what I had seen ; aud being re quested to retire while he douned a lew ar ticles of clothing, I waited in breathless suspense for his re-appearance. "The fellow will not be iu a hurry," said he, in answer to my fears that he would escape ; " he kuows the family are out of town. 1 shall get a policeman, and secuie him quietly." Aud bidding me be of good courage, he closed the front door, and looked up and down the street. I cowered in the parlor half disposed to rush aficr Ben, and insist upon a'ccompanying him ; but, I was not exactly in promenade costume, and it would take so long to " get myself up," that by that time, the affair would be over. Theu, too, those dreadlul revolvers might be used; and a bullet would be almost sure to lodge in my arm, or, perhaps, in some more vital point, should I chance to be within shooting Tn so considerations induced me to re main where I was ; although wanting to know dreadfully how matters wire pro gressing next door. I was obliged, howev er, to wait for Ben's return ; and then to draw the desired information from hiin, piece by piece. REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER. After an interminable tim", he made his appearance, saying : " Well, the fellow's safely lodged at the station-house for the night ; let's go to bed little girl." And this was all, was it, after such an excitement? Brevity may be the soul of wit, but it is not the sou! of satisfaction when one is hungering for information. " Now," said I, planting myself on the Btairs in a decided attitude, "just please to remember that he is my burglar ; if it badu't been for me yon would never have seen him, and I insist upon hearing some thing about him. B>gin at the beginning, and tell me what you did first, after you left me." " Looked for a po ? iceman," replied Ben hopelessly. " What next ?" " Found one." " Ncxt ?" "Told hiru I had a little job for him." " What then ? Ben, do jou happen to know that you are a particularly disagree able and tormenting animal ? Why can you not give me a spicy and graphic ac couut of yonr adventure, (which is one that you certainly do not have every night of your life,) so as to present it clearly to my mind ? If 1 had gone in yonr stead, you would have heard all abont it from begin ning to end, as a matter of course I don't see why men need be so miserably stupid and unsatisfactory." " Well," rejoined Ben with a fearful yawn, " 1 believe a woman cau start up as bright as a lark at any hour of the night, and talk upon any subject in the universe ; but a fellow can't be spicy and graphic at two o'clock in the morning. Wait until to morrow, and I'll tell you all about it." As ho made a movement to ascend, I ex claimed tragically, " If you advance it will be over my body 1" and finding tiiat some thing of an obstacle, he retreated. " Now," said I triumphantly, " what was the man doing when you fouud him ? Was he rolling up the carpets, or what ?" I had just been reading of a deserted house entered by thieves, who coolly rolled up the carpets, and other desirable articles nearly for transportation, carrying them away, as it was conveni nt, and I thought how pleasant it would have been for Mrs Beverley to return to a home in this condi tion ! " He was not doing any thing in partic ular," was the reply, " we found him com fortably lodged in the back bedroom sound asleep." I was filled with amazement to find that my burglar had only wanted a night's lodg ing. " That does not follow at all," said Ben authoritatively, " he was sure of his house before he begnr, and being just then iu need of comfortable rest, he conclude 1 to take it, and other things, at his leisure.— He seemed determined not to wake until we had turned on the gas full blast ; when he sprung up and caught me by the hair. A sight of my pißtols, however, soon quiet ed him, to say nothing of the policeman's appliances. He's too nice-looking a fellow to be engaged in such work, and he car ried it off with a high air—protesting against being disturbed, and assuring us that he had a perfect right to lodge at Mrs. Beverley's as he was a relative of that lady's." " A relative ?" I repeated with breathless interest. " That is what he Baid ; but the police man cooly replied, with a grin, ' You see it ain't exactly the lashion for relatives to visit folks ih your off handed way—climb ing in at their windows when they are out of town ; and as you seem to be iu want of a night's lodging just put on your duds and I'll accommodate you at the station house.' ' How dare you mention such a place to me V stormed the grandiloquent burglar, ' I tell you I have just arrived in the city tired out with my journey, and came here, at the request of my sister, to transact some business for her iu this very house.'" " His sister I" I exclaimed in great ex citement ; but Ben went on regardless : " ' Do I look a burglar ?' be asked, strik ing an attitude. " All the burglars I ever see were much like other people," said the unimprcssible policeman, "some better, some worse, and 'cause you happen to have a straight nose and be personable-looking, ain't no reason why wo should let you off. So, just you come along quiet now, and it'll be the better for you." " I'm obliged to you for your invitation," replied the burglar who seemed more disposed to laugh than he had been yet, " which appears to press ing to be declined ; but I can assure you tbat 1 have a perfect right to be here. " A difference of opinion, mebbe," returned the I guardi mof the public peace ; but when 1 j see folks breaking into other folks' houses, !my orders is to nab 'em." " But you didn't see me doing any thing of the kind," re turned the culprit. " You saw me peace fully s'eeping, aud made an unwarranta ble assault upon me." "Well, this gentle man's sister saw you any how," said the policeman, determined not to be baffled. " Then," observed the robber, with rather a comical smile, " it is to a lady that I am indebted for these polite attentions ? So, take care little sister, that he does not wreak his vengeance on yov. My experi ence of burglars is not extensive, but this fellow doesn't look at all like his busiuess —just the kind of man I'd like to smoke a cigar and have a good talk with." " No At," said I, severely, " don't you feel a little ashamed, after this long story, of trying to put me off with a sentence ? But Ben," I continued, with a stroag conviction that the burglar had truth on his side, not withstanding the fact that Mrs. Beverley's brother was supposed to be recreating among the New Hampshire hills at that identical time. " Mrs. Beverley really has a brother—she has talked to me about him . i often, and I do believe that man was telling , I the truth." " Pooh J" said Ben, incredulously, " such a story is easily manufactured ; it is very natural for people to have brothers, and I suppose that was the first idea that pre sented itself." " Well," I replied, my conviction grow ing stronger from opposition, " you must go with me to the station-house to-morrow morning ; and if I can identify this man as Mr. Esselton, from the photograph that Mrs. Beverley has shown me, ol course they will let him go. As I have gotten him into a scrape, the least I cau do, if he is inno cent, is to get him out again." " We'll go to bed now," raid Ben, whose thoughts reverted to first principles, " and talk about the statiou house to-morrow." " Let's go to bed. Said sleepy head." was my retort ; but Ben was in earnest, this time, and to bed we accordingly went. I was visited by such troubled dreaoiß, though, in which Mrs. Beverley's brother climbed into our window, and tried to strangle me, that I gladly welcomed the morning sun. I gave Ben no peace until he had agreed to accompany me to the station-house ; afld packing up my head aud face in a double green vail, I started bravely for the scene of action. The premises were not inviting ; and sev eral poor unfortunates were lounging about awaiting their sentence. Sitting bolt up right in a very uncomfortable chair, with an air or injured innocence, was an ex tremely handsome, gentlemanly-looking young man, whose features seemed famil iar. " The burglar," whispered Ben, byway of introduction. "Oh Ben 1" I exclaimed, quite conscience smitten, "do make them let him go ! I am sure he is Mrs. Beverley's brother 1" " Does he look like the portrait ?" asked Ben with considerable interest. "Yes," I replied, scarcely daring to look "I am almost sure it is the same face. But j let me get outside, and then tell them that we made a mistake." I did not know what was passing inside, but my face burned painfully ; aud when Ben joined me, I walked away at a race horse pace. " That was a great idea of yours," said my brother laughing, "and pl-ced me in a rather queer positiou—just the next thing to apologizing to a man for shooting him because you took him for 6ome one else 1 lie really is a nice fellow though, aud shook my hand as gratefully as though I had nev er disturbed fits slumbers He said that, in future, he never would even enter his own home uuless he could go in through the door, and at an orthodox hour. He is coming back with his sister in the autumn, and then I hope we shall see something of him." " I never wish to see flhr hear of him again !" said I, wrathfully, " and I only wish he would go somewhere among the cannibals, and be eaten up as soon as he landed !" Ben offered me his knife in default of a tenpenny nail ; but the condition at which I had arrived demanded a two hours crying in my own room before I % was sufficiently composed to take up the burden of the day. Of c turse, I wrote immediately to Mrs. Beverley, telling her of my ridiculous mistake and intense mortification, and beg giDg her to explain to her brother just how it had all happened ; and J soon received a reply tbat was characteristic of her own sweet self. " If I could put a good, hearty laugh on paper " she wrote, " you should certainly have it as some faint representation of the cachinations of Harry and myself over your proceedings. To think that one whom I have always looked upon as a well-dispos ed young lady, should make such an unpro voked attack on such an inoffensive young man, and actually lodge him in the station house 1 Oh, Minnie ! Minnie ! I could not have believed it of you 1 " But, seriously, my dear child,l beg that, instead of giving yourself any uneasiness, you will accept my grateful thanks for watching my premises so faithfully ; and you certainly had every reason to suppose that a man who would erter my window at two o'clock iu the morning, could not pos sibly be a respectable member of society. I really did send hiui, though, to spend the night there, and to get me some valuable papers ; and 1 told him, moreover, how to unfasten the window. Harry seems far more impressed with your kindness in get ting him out of the station-house than with your unkindness in getting him in ; and he is so anxious to express his thinks in per so i,lhat I am afraid he will succeed in wor rying me home some weeks sooner than I intended." A Now, I had not. the slightest desire to see this injured young man ; aud wheu tho time of his arrival came,like all other things we dread,with amazing celerity,l called up all my powers of strategy for decent excu ses to avoid the evil moment. But that provoking Ben must needs "take" to him wonderfully ; and somehow or other, I always fouud myself doing what ever Ben did. It all seemed like a dream ; my introduction to Harry Esselton, engage ment, and marriage ; but the affair of the burglary has furnished the whole family, himself included, with so much amusement, that I can scarcely regret having once lodged my husband in the Btation-house. BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATION.— The keeper at Calais was boasting of the brightness of his lantern, which can be seen ten leagues at sea, when a visitor said to him : " What if one of the lights should go out ?" " Nev er, impossible," ho cried, horrified at the bare thought. " Sir," said he, pointing to the ocean, " yonder, where nothing can be seen there are ships going to all parts of the world. If to-night one of my burners were out, within six months would come a letter— perhaps from some place I never beard of—saying, such a night, at sach an hour, the light at Calais burned dim, the watchman ueglected his post, and vessels were in danger. Ah ! sir, sometimes in the dark nights iu b'--aiy weather, I look out to sea aud feel ac if the eye of the whole world were looking at my light. Go out ? Burn dim ? 0, never I" Was this lighthouse keeper so vigilant? Did he feel so deeply the importance of his work ? And shall Christians neglect their light, and suffer it to grow dim, grow dim when for need of its bright shining, some poor soul, straggling amidst the waves of temptation, may be dashed upon destruc tion ? No. "Holding forth the word of life." This is the way to save souls. "Hold-1 ing forth the word of life," says the apos- ] tie ; why ? " that i may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain." THE prevailing fashion of wearing the beard and moustache unshorn is likely to reeeive considerable impetus trom the fact that the Prince of Wales has abandoned the razor,and has announ ced his intention to wear his beard for the future in patriarchal fashion. A Paris paper apologizes to its readers for being compelled to make an erratum, having placed four marriages under the mercantile head leg of "defltoeHoae of fcahm." #3 per Annum, in Advance. Ol R ONE LIFE. 'Tis not for man to trifle I Life in brief, , And sin is here. Onr age is bnt the falling of a leaf, A dropping tear. We have no time to sport away the hours, All must he earnest in a world like oars. Not many lives, bnt only one have we, One, only one ; How sacred should that one life ever be, That narrow span ! Day after day filled up with blessed toil, Hour after hour still bringing in new spoil. Our being is no shadow of thin air, No vacant dream ; No fable of the tilings that were, Bnt only seem. 'Tis full of meaning as of mystsry, Though strange and solemn may that meaning be. Our sorrows are no phantom of the night, No idle tale ; No clond that flonts along a sky of light On summer gale. They are the true realities of earth, Friends and companions even from our birth. O lite below! how brief and poor and sad! One heavy sigh. O life above ! how long ! how fair ! how glad! Aud endless joy. Oh ! to be done with daily dying h:r ; Oh to begin the living in yon sphere! NASBY [Written for the Toledo Blade.) THE AMI.LSTT PHOPOSITION- —THE INHABITANTS or THE Caoss RO.ABS MADE THE VICTIMS OF A CXVEL AND HEABTDEKS HOAX. CONFEDBIT X ROADS, ) [wich is in the Stait nv Kentucky, !- December 3d, 1866. J I never wuz so elevated nor never so cast down in my life ez last nite, and the entire Corners wuz ditto. The circumstan ces uv the case wuz ez follows : Me and a party uv friends wuz a playin draw poker with a Noo York commershel traveler, I believe they call em, a feller with a raus tash and side whiskers, wich comes South a talkiu sece6h and sellin goods. He made some inquiries about the standin uv the dealers at the Corners, and wuz, after said inquiries, eggstreemly anxious to sell em goods for cash. They wanted em on nine ty days' time, and on this they split. He agreed with em in principle—he drank to Jeff. Davis, and damned Lincoln flooently-- but on the cash question he wuz inflexible and immovable. To while away the rosy hours, a knot of choice sperrits, him in clooded, gathered in the Post Orffis, to en joy a game nv draw poker. There wuz me ai d Square Gavitt, and Deacon Pagram aud Eider Slathers,and the Noo Yolk drum mer. We played till past the witchiu hour of 12 M.,wheu grave yards yawn andgosts troop forth—when the Noo Yorker suck utnb. Ilis innocent, unseasoned bowels hedn't been eddicated up to the standard nv Kentucky whiskey, wich, new ez we drink it, is pizen to foreigners. The Deek in and Elder grabbed the stakes wich wuz on to the table, and rifled his pockets on the suspishen that he wuz a Abolisbnist, and rolled him out, and while in the very act, Pollock, the lilinoy storekeeper, cam rashin in, askin us ef we'd heerd the news. We sneered yoonanimously that we hedn't. "I'mjistin from Looisville" sed he, "I j jist rode over from the stashen, Looisville j is in a blaze uv glory !" "Wat," sez I, "hez Samuer killed Thad. Stevens, and immejitly committed Buicide?" "Sury," Lez he, "but Johnson and Con gress hev come together on the basis uv yooniversal amnesty, wicli wuz proclaimed yesterday, to be follered by yooniversal suffrage ez soon ez the South kin conven iently do it They hev met and embraced j on Horace Greeley's plan." Deekin Pogram bust into a hysterical laff and in his joy handed me the proceeds uv his explorashen uv the pockets uv the Noo Yorker, and like a blessed old lunatic broke for the meetin house. In a moment or two the bell pealed forth its joyous notes, and in a tninit more the half dressed villagers wuz seen emergin from their respective dom iciles in all styles uv attire. A few minits sufficed to make them understand wat wuz the occasion uv the uproar, and a more en thoosiastic population never woke the eck os. Afore five minits hed rolled off into eternity, there wuz a bonfire blazin ou the north aide uv the square, the said boufire beiu a nigger house wich the Freedmen's Commission hed erected, and wich our en thoosiastic citizens hed in their delirium uv joy set fire to. It wuz emblamatic. The smoke ex it rolled to the South methawt assoomed the shape uv a olive branch—the cry uv the nigger children wich coodent es cape, symbolized their deserted condition, and the smell uv em ez they roasted wuz like unto incense, grateful to our nostrils. A informal meetin wuz to wuast organ ized by the lite uv the burnin skool house, to wich Deekin Pogram addressed himself. He remarked that this wuz a Bolemn occas ion, so solemn, indeed, that he felt inade kate to express the feelins wich filled him. His mouth wuz'nt big enough to give vent to his sole, though ef he didn't he'd bust. "Wat are we met fore to nite, my friends," sed he, "wat calls us together 1 Wherefore these sounds uv joy—wherefore this fire, and wherefore is Bascom sellin liker at half price? Becoz we are rehabilitated—that's what we are. Becoz the North hes gone into the olive branch business agin, and we hev wunst more our rites. We are amnestied. We kin vote—we kin go to Congress—we are again citizens uv the grate Republic— Pollock, the Illinoy store keeper, riz and begged permishin to say a word. He pro tested agin these doins. He understood, akkordin to Horris Greeley's plan, that un iversal suffrage wuz to follow universal amnesty—why then this makin John Rodgerses uv the niggers ? Wuz the South a goin to act in good faith ? Deekin Program replied : The South nev er yit broke plighted faith save when she cood make suthin by so doin. At this pres ent junkter uv affairs he presoomed the South wood extend, not recisely universal suffrage to the niggers, but the way wood be opened to em. Sich a mass uv iguuiaia <- cood never be trusted with the ballot with out preparashen, and to prepare em wood be an overturnin in the Kiutucky theory, that the nigger is a beast,and the Northern Demokritic idea that UM niggar wua out by Noer ami doomed forever to be a slave. The gentleman from lilinoy will townnst perceive the fir we are in. They aint fit for the ballot now, and ef wo make, em no, it overturns our theory, which we cant do.— Still we propose to be just to em. Wc she! give sich uv em the ballot rz arc suffishent ly intellijent, arid we shel not put the stan dard too high nuther. We shel give every wun uv em the ballot who is able to reed the Greek testament fluently and pass a credible examinashen in Lattin,embroidery, French, German, Euglish Grammar and dooble-entry book-keepin. The path to th.- polls yoo see is open to era. Uv courte we cant be expected to tote rate skool-houses for ton, coz that wood raise em above their liorrWu! condishen. Also, thermust be prop er regul&Bhens coutrolhn em, for, my deer sir, they are mere infanta,and their totteria steps on tbo road to lreedom needs direct ing Society is a compromise in which every one resigns ez much uv his persnai liberty ez the good uv the hull may demand. We count ourselves the hull, and the resinio uv persncl liberty must come from them.— "That nigger," sed be.pintin to wun that the joyous citizens wuz stringing up to lias corn's sign poet, "that nigger is a resinin his persnel freedom for the good of the bull. No doubt in his heart he murmurs, and ef the cord wich is chokiu him cood be loosen ed, ho wood replin i. It is rough on him,but the sooperiority uv the Caucashn race must be—My God ! its one uv my niggers ! Stop ! Bascome, stop !" ejackilaled the Deekin, but it wuz to late. The nigger wuz already black in the face and hed ceased to kick, and the Deekin, heavin a sigh, per ceeded. NCMBEIt 31. "We shel Bcrcopulously regard tbeir rites. They shel hev the rite to buy land, and be in all respecks like nz, ez soon ez they kin be trusted. Till then they will hev to be restrained. There must laws prohibiten cm from receiven more than 50 per month, that they may not become bloated aristoc rates and pampered sons uv luxury—the proper development of the couQtry.and like wise the payment of the Coufedrit debt, re quires inanuel laber which we waz never educated to do, and therefore the good the whole requires that they shel resino iheir persnel liberty so fur as to be confined to the plantashuus onto which they hev en gaged to laber, that they may relijusiy do ■o, which j6 eleerly necessary,for yoo see ef 1 hire a nigger in Jauouary, I must not be exposed to the chaoses uv his quitt.n rue in July. But wat more kin they want ? They are free to as great a extent ez the good of society will permit. We shel give era qual ified suffrage, fixiu, uv course, wich is just, the qualifications ourselves, and beiu valy ooble members of sosiety,hereafter we shel care fur em, so long ez they are healthy— good Lord, why will them cuesis persist in haugin up able-boditd niggers when there's so many old ones around, good for nothin but to celebrate with," and to save another wun uv his former servants, the Deekin closed abruptly. It is onnecesfary to recount the further dooins uv the nite. There wuz a skool-house and church, recently erected, burned, with some skore or sich a matter uv young nig gers in 'em which wuz too yung to be uv any yoose, save one girl, which wuz nearly white and almost fifteen, wich ought to hev bin reskooed, and five, ef I counted correct ly, able-bodied men and wimin wuz hung. Bascom sold out his stock entirely, and by three A. M. the inhabttance uv the Corners wuz a layin around the square in festoons. There wuz a bitter awakeniuto this scene uv bit'er festivity. At a little after 7,while the Deekin, the Elder, and myself, wuz in Bascom'B, tryiu to get an assuager, and the best we cood do wuz to pour a quart uv water into a barrel which hed been emptied and roll it around, and thus flavor it. Capt. McPelter, late uv Morgan's cavalry,cum in from Looisville. Eagerly we asked him the eonfirmashun up the tidins, when he inform ed us that it was a hoax—that no sich tiling hed bin done, nor was Congress in any sich a noshen, Pollock dropped in, and when I reproached him with his doop!icity,he ans ered that it wuz a hoax, but he hoped we'd excoose him. He hed a cravin desire to see whether ef Amnesty and Suffrage shood be adopted,how fur we'd go in the latter direc tion. Ho wuz satisfied,and honestly hoped we'd forgive him the pleasant jest. He'd made the Corners lively one nite any how. I wuz too profoundly disgusted to reply to the wretch. PFTROLKCH V. NASBY, P. M. (wich is Postmaster.) . WHAT MAKES "BLUE WATEB." Aoy one who has made a veritable sea voyage, says Chambers' Journal, cannot have failed to notice the intensely blue colors of the water in certain parts of the ocean. In the vicinity of land, he will have seen the water c>f a bright green col or, which will be found to prevail until soundings cease to be struck. In the deep unfathomable parts of the ocean, he will have seen the water of so deep a blue as to be fully as dark as the strongest solu tion of blue vitro!, and even in the regions where deep blue water is the general color of the sea, he may have Been, if he have been in the Gulf stream, or gone " down the Trades," a deeper blue than the deep est in certain localities. There is a current in the China Seas that washes the Aleutian Islands, aud is so dark as compared with the other waters of the ocean, that the Japanese call it the Black Stream. Other ocean streams there are, and particular portions of the ocean itself, which are more ilue than their neighbors. Every West India voyager knows the marvelous blue of the Trade wind waters. The true cause of this blue color of the ocean is to be found in the saltness of the ocean ; and in the case of the West India waters, to the absence of those causes which are in full operation in more northern latitudes, and which as clearly mark the seas of those re gions to be different from those more south erly, as their respective climates are dis tinguished by different degrees of heat and cold. It is observed in the pools or brine vats of salt works that the more concen trated the water the bluer the color of it, the saltest of all being of a hue nearly as deep as that of the intertropical waters. The light green color of the North Sea and the Polar Sea is to the bine or the more southerly waters what the middle brine-vat is to the vat in which crystalization takes place ; aod the Gulf Stream, off the coast of the Carolinas, 'and the waters of the Trade-wind region, are to the other waters of the Atlantic what the last vat is to the penultimate vat, that is to say, the dark bine is Salter than the light green sea, and the deeper the blue the Salter the water. A YEAR'S TROUBLE. —Sometimes I com pare the troubles we have to undergo in course of a year to a gra ; bundle o? oig gots far too large for us to lift. B' il God does not rcqu> r e us to carry the whole at 1 once. lie mercifully uuites the bundle, and i gives us lifct one stick, which we are able |to carry to-morrow, and so on. litis we mi